Addressing-plate.



U. G. LEE.

ADDRESSING PLATE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 8, 1910.

982,076. 7 Patented Jam 17, 1911.

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'To all whom it may concern:

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. I

ULYSSES G. LEE, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO MONTAGUE MAILINGMACHINERY. COMPANY, A CORPORATION .OF TENNESSEE.

ADDRESSING-PLATE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 17, 1911.

Application filed June 8, 1910. Serial No. 565,899.

Be it known that I, ULYSSES G. LEE, citizen of the-United States,residing at Brooklyn, New York, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Addressing- Plates.-of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to addressing plates for use in addressingmachines, and is an improvement upon that form of plate disclosed inLetters Patent of the United States granted to Charles Owens, Number939,739, of November 9, 1909.

My present improvement is designed to prevent the addressing plates fromcatching or locking one with the other when they become disorganized orwhen it is desirable to insert the plate in the pile, the result of myimprovement being that the plates may be handled with greater ease andfacility when they are arranged in a stack or pile, so thatindividual'plates may be inserted in the pile, it beingpossible to.

shufile the series of plates like a pack of cards.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a plan View of an addressingplate built in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is an end view ofthe said plate. Fig. 3 represents an end view of a number of platesassembled one upon the other, and Fig. 4 shows one plate displaced inrelation to the others of the series and illustrates how one plate canbe inserted in the pile without in-' terlocking or catching upon theother plates. Fig. 5 represents the oldform of plate in relation to'theother plates like'that shown in Fig. 4, showing how this plate willinter-,

lock with the adjacent plate of the pile or stack.

In these drawings, 1 indicates the main body of the plate said platebeing made of thin sheet metal, such as zinc, though I do not limitmyself in respect to the material used. This main portion of the platehas its margin depressed as at 2, the said margin extending from thedepressed portion outwardly in a plane'substantially parallel with theplane of the main'body of the plate, and this margin is then rolled orturned back'upon itselI on the upper side of the said depressed marginalportion. This brings the shoulder of the rolled or thick enedportionadjacent the portion of the depressed margin at the point 3. By this construction the under side of the plate is left smooth from abruptshoulders whichv would otherwise be present on the under side of theplate were the marginal portion rolled on the under side of the plate.It will be seen from this construction that the smooth bevel-on theunder side of the plate will enable the individual plates to be insertedin the stack or pile without interlocking, such for instance asillustrated in Fig. 4. In other words, any plate or number of plates canbe shifted'laterally in respect to the other plates so that a number ofplates may be exposedto view and re-arranged without entirely separatingthem from each other shoulder formed by rolling the marginal portion ofthe plate on the under side thereof. In other words, the form of plateshown in Fig. 5 will'nest so that one interlocks wit-h the other,whereas, in Fig. 4 while the plates will be centered in relation to eachother they will not nest in the sense that one catches upon orinterlocks with the other to an extent which prevents its lateralmovement in respect thereto. It will be understood that Where manythousands of these plates are handled weekly in connection with mailinglists of extensive publications, the facility and ease with which theplates can be handled is a most importantconsideration.

I claim as my invention 1. An addressing plate having a raised centralportion with its longitudinal margins turned downwardly and thenceoutwardly in a plane substantiallfy paralle with the plane of the uppersur ace of the plate, the said marginal portions being then rolledupwardly upon themselves and having their edges directed in the planesubstantially parallel with the plane of the main part of the plate.

2. An addressing plate having a raised central portion with its marginturned downwardly and thence outwardly in a plane substantially parallelwith the plane of the upper surface of the plate, the said marginalportion being then rolled upwardly upon itself with the inner edge of iIn testimony whereof, I affix my signature the overlying portionadjacent the shoulder in presence of two witnesses.

between the upper portion and the mar inal portion, the said marginalportion h v- I ULYSSES 5 ing its edge directed outwardly in a planeVVitn'esses:

parallel with the plane of the central por- G. C. FIEGEL,

tion, substantially as described. I PAUL WAHLERS.

